An anisotropic elasto-viscoplastic model for short-fiber reinforced polymers

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Abstract

The influence of flow on the fiber orientation in injection molding of short-fiber composites leads to both anisotropy and inhomogeneity of the mechanical response. An anisotropic elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model is developed to capture the anisotropic and time-dependent behavior and plasticity controlled failure of short-fiber composites. This model will be numerically implemented in a 3D framework and will be evaluated through simulation of the demonstrator problems.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 14 Dec 2017

Bibliographical note

This research forms part of the research programme of
DPI, project #786ft15.

Keywords

  • Short-fiber composites
  • Injection molding
  • Constitutive model
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Plasticity

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